Hi, Doug Goldstein <car...@gentoo.org>:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer > <fa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 > > and OpenRC can go stable. Up to now I have: > > > > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module > > * a newer splashutils stable > > * documentation updates (http://bugs.gentoo.org/213988, thanks > > Jeremy) > > > > What else? As some of you might foresee, this can be as hard as a > > major GCC stabilisation, so it must be well-planned and organised. > > > > V-Li > > > > -- > > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project > > <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode > > > > <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> > > > > The only reason why OpenRC has not come up for stabilization by it's > maintainers is the fact that everytime there's a new version readied > for release, on the horizon there's new incompatible changes being > planned for the next version. The OpenRC maintainers in Gentoo have > always chosen to wait until OpenRC settles down a little bit. Now with > the plan to drop support for certain features (ADSL and PPP support in > the networking code), it's going to rewrite more Gentoo people to step > up to develop and maintain this code. After having seen vapier speaking about stabilisation on -core we had a discussion about the wanted news item, which i posted for review. Before the "todo" mail, I wrote to the maintainers (Roy and base-system) some days in advance, with only a reaction from Roy. > If you're volunteering for this position, Christian, I'll happily step > down and allow you to maintain this. I would also discuss this with > zzam and vapier, the other 2 maintainers of OpenRC. All I want to do is help with the stabilisation...which I though is nigh. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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